Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg
Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe- Lauenburg (* June 13, 1672 in Neuhaus an der Elbe, † October 15, 1741 in Imperial City ) was a princess of Saxe- Lauenburg and succession by marriage Countess Palatine of Neuburg and Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Life
Anna Maria Franziska was the eldest surviving daughter of the Duke Julius Franz of Saxe- Lauenburg (1641-1689) from his marriage to Hedwig (1650-1681), daughter of the Count Palatine Christian August of Sulzbach.
After the death of her father, she was together with her younger sister Sibylla Augusta under guardianship of Emperor Leopold I asked. They only inherited the extensive territories of Bohemia her father, including the goods Buschtiehrad, Consonim, Minckwitz, Politz, Ploschkowitz, swaths Schwolino and imperial city. The claim of succession to the duchy, in the struggle of powers by she could not assert themselves and also the emperor turned against them, they never gave up. Anna Maria Franziska was considered one of the most interesting marriage candidates of the empire.
She married his first wife, on October 29, 1690 in Raudnitz Count Palatine Philip William of Neuburg ( 1668-1693 ), who first died aged 25 after three years of marriage.
Her second husband was on July 2, 1697 in Dusseldorf Grand Duke Gian Gastone of Tuscany ( 1671-1737 ). The marriage had been arranged by Anna Maria Franziska's sister Anna Maria Luisa and should the compounds of Tuscany to the Kingdom to further consolidate. The marriage was a complete fiasco. The alcohol and the boys love Gian Gastone was inclined toward fasting interests in the sciences, while his wife created more for the country life, rode most and hunted. The couple separated in 1708 after mediation efforts of the Archbishop of Prague on behalf of Pope Clement XI. had failed. Anna Maria Franziska called her husband in these discussions as "totally impotent " and would not think of exposing themselves to the risk of being murdered in Florence. Gian Gastone, in turn, described his wife as "impossible Witch " and would not think of it, to receive it in Florence, if it came to it. Gian Gastone was living in Florence, and Anna Maria Franziska remained on their Bohemian goods, primarily in imperial city. The couple never saw again.
In 1723 she left the church in Politz finish in its present form. Anna Maria Franziska died as the last of the family of the Dukes of Lauenburg and was buried alongside her first husband's side in the parish church of imperial city.
Progeny
From her first marriage to Philip Wilhelm of the Palatinate Anna Maria Franziska had two daughters:
- Leopoldine Eleonore (1691-1693)
- Maria Anna Caroline (1693-1751)